Lord Triesman: The Global Conflict Prevention Pool currently funds 11 joint Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)/Department for International Development (DfID)/Ministry of Defence (MoD) strategies addressing specific countries or regions: Afghanistan; the Balkans; Caribbean; Latin America (including Belize/Guatemala); Indonesia/East Timor; India/Pakistan; Iraq; Middle East and North Africa; Nepal; Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States and Sri Lanka. It also funds three joint FCO/DfID/MoD strategies aimed at support for international capacity-building: security sector reform, small arms and light weapons and the UN.
	The Africa Conflict Prevention Pool funds bilateral assistance to a range of countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current priorities are Sudan; Sierra Leone; the Great Lakes region; Uganda and Nigeria. The pool also supports work in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia and in countries less directly affected by conflict, for example, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. The pool also funds support to continental and regional bodies, including the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States.

Lord Hanningfield: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Which (a) officials, and (b) former officials of the Department for Trade and Industry currently have the use of a residence owned or financed by the government; and, in each case, what is (i) the title of the official in residence, serving or retired; and (ii) the annual running cost of the residence.

Baroness Andrews: Ninety-six sites were acquired by English Partnerships from the Department of Health. These sites are listed below. Sixty-seven of these sites transferred to English Partnerships on 6 April 2005 and a further 15 sites transferred on 28 March 2006. The remaining 14 sites are due to transfer during 2006–07 as operational uses cease.
	English Partnerships Hospital Sites Programme
	South-east
	Alpha House, Droxford, Winchester
	Knowle Hospital, Winchester
	Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Croydon
	Lord Mayor Treloar, Alton
	Park Prewett, Basingstoke
	Coldeast Hospital, Fareham
	St Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath
	Leybourne Grange, Maidstone
	Linton Hospital, Maidstone
	Milford Hospital, Milford
	Land at Hill House, Rye
	Sheppey Hospital, Sheppey
	Land at St Johns Hospital, Stone
	Fair Mile Hospital, Cholsey
	Renny Lodge, Newport Pagnell
	St Augustine Hospital, Chartham
	Mabledon Hospital, Dartford
	Epsom Cluster Horton Farm, Epsom
	Epsom Cluster Retail Centre, Epsom
	Royal Earlswood, Redhill
	Hazel Farm, Southampton
	Tatchbury Hospital, Calmore, New Forest
	Celsea Place, Cholsey
	The Crescent & The Downs, Chartham
	Unit 7 Merlin Court, Aylesbury
	Beaumont Villa, Northampton
	Coach House, Kingsworthy, Winchester
	Southlands Hospital, Shoreham
	West Park Hospital, Epsom
	St Leonard's Hospital, Ringwood
	St Ebba's Hospital, Epsom
	Graylingwell, Chichester
	Stone House, Dartford
	Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate
	East
	Land at Heath Close, Billericay
	Severalls Hospital Site, Colchester
	Land adjoining Reckett House, Clacton
	Rush Court, Bedford
	St Mary's House, Norwich
	Turner Village Hospital, Colchester
	St Margaret's Hospital, Epping
	Runwell Hospital, Chelmsford
	St Clements Social Club, Ipswich
	South-west
	Cashes Green Hospital, Stroud
	Land at St Mary's Axminster
	Tiverton District Hospital, Tiverton
	Belmont Hospital, Tiverton
	Cottages one to five, Herrison, Charminister
	Lower Farm Buildings, Herrison, Charminster
	Sewer Field, Herrison, Charminister
	Hanham Hall, Bristol
	Newfoundland Court Office, Bristol
	Brunel House, Gloucester
	Yorks & The Humber
	Hull Maternity Hospital, Hull
	Land at Springfield, Grimsby
	Scartho Hall, Grimsby
	Scartho Hall—site opposite, Grimsby
	Grimsby District Hospital, Grimsby
	Land at Norton Aerodrome, Sheffield
	Seacroft Hospital Land, Leeds
	Wharfdale General Hospital, Otley
	North-west
	Whittingham, Preston
	Winwick Farm, Warrington
	Land at Lancaster Moor, Lancaster
	Countess of Chester, Chester
	Winwick Sports and Social Club, Warrington
	Piccadilly Gardens, Lancaster
	North-east
	Cherry Knowle Hospital, Sunderland
	Hartlepool General Hospital, Hartlepool
	Killingworth Stores, Killingworth, North Tyneside
	St Georges Hospital, Castle Morpeth
	Ashington General Hospital, Ashington
	Maiden Law Hospital, Lancaster
	Prudhoe Hospital, Prudhoe
	Aycliffe Hospital, Darlington
	Birney Hall Farm, Castle Morpeth
	Stannington Children's Hospital, Castle Morpeth
	Shotley Bridge Hospital, Consett
	Tindale Crescent, Bishop Auckland
	Homelands Hospital, Crook
	East Midlands
	Ashover House, Lincoln
	Derby Chest Clinic, Derby
	Stretton Hall Farmland, Oadby
	Carey House, Skegness
	Towers Hospital, Leicester
	Manor/Kingsway Hospital, Derby
	West Midlands
	Lea Castle Hospital, Kidderminster
	Ledbury Cottage, Ledbury
	Barnsley Hall Land, Bromsgrove
	Limes, Himley
	Chemsley ADR Land, Solihull
	Middlefield, Knowle
	Bucknall Main Site, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent
	Royal Shrewsbury, Shopshire
	Smallwood Health Centre, Redditch
	The Beeches Hospital, Telford
	English Partnerships will seek to maximise the proportion of homes on each site that are affordable. Final numbers will be determined on a site-by-site basis in discussion with local planning authorities as sites are taken forward. Sites from the programme put out to the market to date have existing planning permissions.
	The first phase of the Park Prewett site in Basingstoke was the first of the hospital sites to be sold in November 2005. This phase of the site's development is expected to provide 884 new homes, 335 of which will be in affordable tenures. For the hospital sites programme as a whole, it is expected that up to 50 per cent. of the estimated 14,000 homes to be built will be affordable.
	When disposing of sites, English Partnerships will be seeking to obtain best value for the public sector. Contractual agreements with developers will be designed to ensure that English Partnerships benefits from future enhanced site value.

Lord Laird: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How much revenue will be raised in Northern Ireland in each of the next five years as a result of industrial re-rating.

Lord Rooker: The removal of industrial derating commenced on 1 April 2005 and will be phased out over seven years.
	The following table displays the estimated projected amount of total revenue from industrial derating.
	
		
			 Year Rate Liability Estimated Revenue 
			 2006–07 25% £18.2 million 
			 2007–08 35% £26.1 million 
			 2008–09 50% £38.2 million 
			 2009–10 75% £58.7 million 
			 2010–11 75% £60.1 million 
		
	
	Projections are based on the total increase of non-domestic rate of 4.5 per cent. per annum.
	These estimates may change as a consequence of changing rate increases or updates to collection and valuation information.

Lord Triesman: Quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia) principals and envoys receive regular updates on significant events in the Occupied Territories from their representatives and diplomatic missions in the region. Their most recent discussion was on 9 May in New York. The quartet is aware of the current humanitarian situation in the Occupied Territories. At the 9 May meeting, the quartet urged Israel to take steps to improve the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian people. The quartet reiterated that the Palestinian Authority government must fulfil their responsibilities with respect to basic human needs, including health services, as well as for proper fiscal management and provision of services. Since 1994, the Palestinian Ministry of Education has provided approximately 12,000 classrooms. The quartet will continue to monitor the situation closely.

Lord Triesman: The EU is currently taking forward work on a temporary international mechanism, the objective of which is direct delivery and supervision of assistance to the Palestinian people. The EU is working urgently to develop such a mechanism, which as a matter of priority will be aimed at contributing to meet basic needs, including health services. It will consult international financial institutions and other key partners and invite other donors to actively join in the effort to establish the mechanism as soon as possible. The Commission has circulated a discussion paper, and donors will meet on 23–24 May to discuss progress. We hope that the mechanism will be making progress by July, although there is much to do. First payments should be made through the mechanism before July.

Baroness Amos: Uganda has recorded a major achievement in reducing HIV prevalence from 18 per cent. in 1992 to 6.4 per cent. in 2005. Donors have made a major contribution to this success. The UK has provided support through our HIV/AIDS umbrella programme through which we have committed £7.2 million over the past four years for a range of programmes, including major assistance to civil society organisations to help to deliver education, treatment and care services. We have also supported the Government's efforts through our poverty reduction budget support.
	However, prevalence has stopped falling in the past five years, in part because people are now able to live longer with HIV, but more importantly because the number of new infections has stopped falling and over the past two years has once again started to rise. The number of new adult HIV infections is estimated to have risen from 88,400 in 2002 to 105,000 in 2005.
	DfID plans a major new HIV/AIDS programme, which will provide a further £9 million over the next three years. This will build on the support we have already provided and, in particular, will address the issues associated with the increase in the number of new infections. It will seek to strengthen HIV prevention by addressing the gaps in coverage of programmes that are aiming to change sexual behaviour, as well as improving access to condoms and other proven means of prevention.

The Earl of Sandwich: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What assistance they have provided to which human rights and development non-governmental organisations in Uganda over the last three years.

Lord Triesman: The Department for International Development (DfID) has a civil society programme in Uganda, which provides support for human rights and development non-governmental organisations (NGOs). A detailed breakdown is only available for the last two years. Grants of £517,000 in 2004–05 and £655,000 in 2005–06 were made available. DfID also provides funding to NGOs under its HIV/AIDS programme in Uganda. These amounted to £1.459 million in 2004–05 and £2.009 million in 2005–06. We are providing more detailed information, which we will send to the noble Lord and place in the Library of the House.
	DfID, along with other donors, has also provided £1.5 million to a basket fund that has supported the democratisation process and human rights in Uganda. This fund was used predominantly to help the Electoral Commission with the 2006 elections. £671,000 was also set aside for a national civic education programme managed by the Uganda Human Rights Commission. A further £146,000 was provided to a coalition of NGOs who monitored the democratisation process (including media freedom and freedom of assembly). £81,000 from the basket was used to enable an NGO coalition to petition the courts for a ruling on the constitutionality of Uganda's death penalty and its consistency with Uganda's obligations under the international conventions to which it is party.
	Between 2003 and 2006, our High Commission spent £480,045 in Kampala's small grants scheme on community-based development projects. We are providing more information on that, which we will send to the noble Lord and place in the Library of the House. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office also provided £63,484 to the International Republican Institute from 2004–06 to fund a project to build professionalism in political parties.